Quotes About Legacy

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.

Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

Sometimes you want to run away Sometimes you think you do But you never had a dream like this before And you don't want to ask for more Sometimes you leave a mark Before you know the score

Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.